Down With Boring

They’ve just come off a UK tour that saw them live streaming to more people on the Dork Instagram than could fit in the venue they were playing (and London’s KOKO is no tiny circuit venue, ‘FYI’). With their new album ‘Midnight Butterflies’ imminent, Dork indie faves Sea Girls are back in to Down With Boring this week. Plus! We’ll be talking the new album from current cover star Lizzy McAlpine, checking out new music from Glass Animals, Charli XCX, Baby Queen and Lorde, and meeting brilliant new bands Soft Launch, The Itch and Good Neighbours.

This week, we’re ‘live’ from Brighton’s Prince Albert with Panic Shack and Plantoid for Son Estrella Galacia’s mini-fest of live music, beer culture, gastronomy, and a commitment to “positive environmental impact”. Oooo, etc.

Down With Boring is embracing chaos this week, as we’re joined by special guests, Courting. With their second album, ‘New Last Name, ‘ out earlier this year, the former Dork cover stars are typically ‘good value’, as ever. Elsewhere on this week’s show we’ll be chatting through new music from Bleachers, Yard Act, Conan Gray, Been Stellar, Hinds, Charli XCX and more.

English Teacher are on the road to a debut album that’s more than worth the wait. Taking a break from roaming around Bruges to call in from separate hotel rooms, elsewhere on this week’s show we’ll be chatting through new music from IDLES, Crawlers, Lime Garden, Alfie Templeman, Thomas Headon and Talk Show.

On this week's DWB, we're going deep on the album of the moment, The Last Dinner Party's debut full-length 'Prelude to Ecstasy'. Plus, new music from Paramore, Pixey and more.

Dork’s flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is catching up with one of our Hype List 2024 inductees this week. NewDad are about to release their debut album ‘Madra’, and the Galway gang will be joining us to talk all about it. Elsewhere on this week’s show we’ll be chatting through new albums from Green Day and The Vaccines, plus spinning new music from Rachel Chinouriri, English Teachers, Yard Act, Nell Mescal, Lime Garden and Porij.

Dork’s flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is back for the new year, and already knee-deep in festival fun. Recorded live from this weekend’s Rockaway Beach, Jake and Jamie are on site and checking in with the likes of The Cribs, Dream Wife, Hinds and DEADLETTER. Start the year as you mean to go on, and all that.

Dork’s flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is reporting live from our big Christmas bash this week. Recorded live from Dork’s Christmas Night Out last week at London’s legendary 100 Club, we’re joined by Panic Shack, Lambrini Girls and The Itch as we run through all the festive fun.

Down With Boring is checking in with the brains behind one of our favourite albums of 2023, as the magnificent former Dork cover-star Georgia joins us for a catch-up. She’s heading up an episode packed with faves, as we delve deep into Baby Queen‘s debut album ‘Quarter Life Crisis’, check out new music from VLURE, Spector, NewDad and Wasia Project, and welcome back the mighty Girls Aloud. Oh. And Sooty? Yeah. Us neither.

Dork’s flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is going global for an Iceland Airwaves special, recorded live from the festival earlier this month. Hosts Jake Hawkes and Jamie Muir are joined by a slew of talent, including Eurovision legend Daði Freyr, brilliant Belfast trio Kneecap and Dork faves Lime Garden and Sprints. Plus, y’know, just the President of Iceland. No. Really.

Dork’s flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is getting spooky at last Thursday’s Night of the Living Dork II this week, as we bring you all the action from our big Halloween spectacular. Recorded at the show, hosts Jake Hawkes and Jamie Muir are joined by ‘the bands’ – the magnificent Walt Disco and equally terrific FEET – for a suitably themed special edition of the pod.

As they play one of this week’s War Child UK Day of the Girl shows – which we’ll be all across as media partner, ‘FYI’ – we’ll be catching up with northern indie trailblazers The Mysterines. Elsewhere, we’re going deep on Paramore‘s collab-tastic new sort-of-remix-sort-of-rework album ‘Re: This Is Why’, plus new music from some of the most exciting new acts around, including Mary In The Junkyard, Lovejoy and UNIVERSITY.

This week, we're focusing on Mitski's brilliant new album, plus new music from Declan McKenna, Bleachers, Holly Humberstone, blink-182 and more.

Delaying this week’s broadcast for 24 hours so Dream Wife could drop their new single, ‘Love You More’, the band are our special guests part of a packed show that features the new album from Olivia Rodrigo (it’s all anyone is talking about, anyway), plus new music from CMAT, Romy, Divorce and more. Oh, and for some reason, Lou Bega’s ‘Mambo No. 5’. We don’t like to ask.

We spent the weekend at Reading 2023, and now we’re reporting in with a special edition recorded direct from the festival. We wrangled up a bunch of acts, lost half of them (thanks, BBC Radio 1 – Ed), and then grabbed a bunch more to bring you an episode featuring just-dropped-their-debut-album Ashnikko, about-to-drop-their-debut-album Lucia And The Best Boys, main-stage-icon James Marriott and hometown heroes The Amazons.

This week, we're at Dork's Day Out for an episode recorded earlier this month at our annual big summer party. We're joined by all 'the bands' - Thomas Headon, Courting, Swim School, Honeyglaze, Talk Show and Jo Hill - to prove we can indeed organise a piss up... erm... socially responsible event in a brewery.

Dork's flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is off to Truck Festival, as we bring you all the action from our two live editions at the Oxfordshire festival earlier this month. Recorded on-site, hosts Jake Hawkes and Jamie Muir are joined by Circa Waves, DMA's, Everything Everything, Panic Shack, Stone and - rather predictably if you've been to a festival in the last couple of weeks - lots of mud.

DEADLETTER are the special guests on the latest edition of Down With Boring.; Calling in from their… erm… “meaty” smelling van from a car park in Belgium before playing a festival, we may not be able to offer a luxurious green room filled with fresh fruit and soft furnishings, but we can promise one of the most exciting new bands on the circuit. Elsewhere this month, we’re rammed with very exciting new music from the likes of Yard Act, CMAT, Troye Sivan, Courting and Declan McKenna, plus a Really Very Good from our The Cut cover star Claud.

This time round, Down With Boring returns from its trip to Worthy Farm tonight with a Glastonbury 2023 special. Running back across the standout sets from this year’s festival, there’s also new music from Olivia Rodrigo, The Last Dinner Party, Picture Parlour, Holly Humberstone, Stormzy, and more, plus new albums from The Japanese House and Do Nothing.

Our flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is back with special guests Enter Shikari. Recorded at last month’s Slam Dunk North festival, we’re catching up with Rou Reynolds of the genre-defying masters with a chat that goes far and wide. There’s also new music from The Japanese House, Bombay Bicycle Club, CMAT, Do Nothing, and more, and an album focus on Killer Mike‘s Really Very Brilliant new record, ‘Michael’.